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Duskland

Duskland

Day's portending glow

divided by the room we're in

                     verted, lit from below

our shadows cast on ceilings loom

disfigured by the self-consuming gloom

of doom we ourselves evoked

in youth

Tooth for a tooth,

In short: revenge: the word we never spoke

As the hammer fell on his existence

Bludgeoning his dull, swollen resistance

Toward a ****** stillness

That, we hoped, would equal calm

But instead has led us

to the

Duskland

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Written by
normancrane
Canada
Published
Aug 14, 2020
Lines·Words
17·74
Tags
#dark#dusk#morality#revenge#death#nostalgia#guilt#thoughtful#conscience
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